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HWT-FISH-0178

Indio-pacific sailfis

Istiophorus platypterus

(Shaw, 1792)

Istiophorus platypterus
© أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة

Species ISTIOPHORIDAE Fish Name used in this encyclopedia

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Naming evidence

Local names recorded for their geographic scope: evidence that the name is used there, not a published record of biological occurrence.

Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea أبوشراع · فرس البحر · قمبرور الباحه · أبو شراع
Saudi territorial waters, Arabian Gulf فرس

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

Measurements and characters

Specimen total length total length (TL)

162.4 cm

Length of a measured specimen, not the maximum length of the species.

أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة لوحات الحصر المصوّرة confidence: officially documented verification: verified

Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters الصفحة المطبوعة 133 confidence: officially documented verification: unverified the evidence is a rendering of what the locator holds, not a verbatim quotation

Documentation status

documented from a photographed and measured specimen

No source is linked to this value.

Names

English common names

Indio-pacific sailfis

Local names — Saudi territorial waters, Red Sea

  • أبوشراع Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • فرس البحر Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • قمبرور الباحه Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved
  • أبو شراع Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved

Local names — Saudi territorial waters, Arabian Gulf

  • فرس Local name Local name, verified — not nationally approved

Classification

IstiophorusGenus ISTIOPHORIDAEFamily PerciformesOrder ActinopterygiiClass ChordataPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

External identifiers
  • National species code: 5201 — Marine Research Centre, Jeddah

The national collection-form code is not a unique identifier; more than one taxon may carry the same value. The only stable identifier here is the HUWAT code.

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Information not yet documented in this record

These fields are not yet documented for this taxon in the encyclopedia. Their absence describes the record, not the animal.

Scientific sources

أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة (2011). ط١ ١٤٣٢هـ/٢٠١١م.
استمارة التجميع المرمزة للأسماء المحلية — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية.
Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters (2017). الطبعة الثانية 1438 H - 2017.
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Record last modified: 2026-09-12